Have they moved on, embraced their sensitive avant-garde side and become aficionados of Animal Collective and their ilk, or are they still out there, preserved in aspic, lager in hand, just waiting for the right anthemic guitar-based noise to bring them back to life?

Far from exhibiting the "nihilistic selfishness" of trying to "preserve" things in "aspic" - of which planning minister Greg Clark has accused the reforms' opponents - Oakham has accepted that it should be a focus for future housing growth.

Mayonnaise had to be whisked by hand, soup pressed through a hair sieve, aspic jelly prepared with stock and gelatin, potato crisps fried one by one in smoking lard and served with game that had to hang for days prior to roasting until it was "high".